Perhaps it is because that cut comes concurrent with an equally huge reduction in benefits for those who have earned Medicare by virtue of their contributions over a lifetime of deductions and taxation. It is not a pure reduction in the increase. It is a budget stunt to get around CBO numbers and is defacto, consistent with the left's wealth redistribution agenda. The pilfered funds are being shifted to Medicaid to cover an assortment of new entitlement constituencies who will overwhelmingly enhance the democratic base....at the cold, calculated disadvantage of those of advanced years who need it the most. Do I need to draw a picture of how "death panels" by any euphemistic terms might play in this equation?

On another note, as of today, 26 states have joined in Florida's fight against Obama care as unconstitutional based on the mandate to purchase insurance. If they prevail, the Obamacare house of cards will collapse because of insurmountable funding shortfalls. Imagine, more than half, unless you use Obama's 57 state formula, more than half the states are fighting Obamacare with more lining up in the wings.

Do you believe that the actual agenda of Team Obama and the left is just to get their foot in the door and temporarily avoid repeal so they can advance the real goal of a single payer, budget busting, business killing, country dividing, debt crippling and nation bankrupting system? If I have to explain the Cloward-Piven plan I've wasted my time. Did I mention the growth and increased power of government that expands with each step along the path to single payer care. As a limited government advocate, that is what concerns me the most. This agenda is about much more than health care.